Metallica announce new album 72 Seasons


Press photo of Metallica by Tim Saccenti

Metallica by Tim Saccenti




It’ll be released on Metallica’s own Blackened Recordings.

Metallica will put their new album 72 Seasons out on April 14th next year.

The 12 songs total over 77 minutes and were co-produced by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich along with Greg Fidelman, their first full length collection of new material since 2016’s Hardwired…To Self-Destruct.

“72 seasons,” Hetfield says. “The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves. The concept that we were told ‘who we are’ by our parents.”

“A possible pigeonholing around what kind of personality we are. I think the most interesting part of this is the continued study of those core beliefs and how it affects our perception of the world today. Much of our adult experience is reenactment or reaction to these childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or breaking free of those bondages we carry.”

72 Seasons tracklist:

72 Seasons
Shadows Follow
Screaming Suicide
Sleepwalk My Life Away
You Must Burn!
Lux Æterna
Crown of Barbed Wire
Chasing Light
If Darkness Had a Son
Too Far Gone?
Room of Mirrors
Inamorata


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